Movie Name:- Tower Heist
Release Date:- 04 November 2011
Directed By:- Brett Ratner
Produced By:- Brian Grazer, Eddie Murphy, Kim Roth
Written by:- Ted Griffin, Jeff Nathanson
Category / Genres:- Action, Comedy, Crime
IMDB Rating:- 6.6
Run Time:- 104 Minutes
Star Cast:- Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe, Nina Arianda, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Juan Carlos Hernández, Harry O'Reilly, Peter Van Wagner,
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Tower Heist Movie Story Line:- A group of blue color workers, employed at a posh Central Park Condominium, discover that their pension funds have been embezzled by the Penthouse billionaire, Arthur Shaw. Shaw is a Wall Street titan, who has devised a perfect plan to earn big bucks, making use of the people who entrusted him the most in their lives. After this bunch of hard-working guys come to know the nasty intentions of the Financial Giant, they embark on an urgent mission to steal their retirement funds back from the thieving Man. Watch Tower Heist online, to witness the exclusive run of things, as this crew of determined guys conspire to rob Arthur’s luxurious New York city penthouse, in order to get back their life earnings. The old, wealthy businessman, Arthur is placed under house arrest in his high-rise residence, for cleaning out his investors to the tune of 2 billions dollars. Well, in the meantime, far beyond this financial scam, a manager named Josh Kovacs is living a diffident life. For being resided in the same posh tower, he comes to know about the huge Ponzi scheme of Shaw, and thus decides to help the tower staffers, who have fallen victim to the cruel intent of one of the tenants of the Trump tower-like building. Josh hires a sneaky swindler Slide to help the employees reclaim whatever the wealthy businessman has taken from them. Though the security of Arthur’s house is extremely tight, the ragtag gang succeeds in their mission of heisting the guy. With the help of Josh’s knowledge of the building and Slide’s skilful deception, will the workers succeed to get their money back? Catch up with the movie to find out.
Tower Heist Movie Review:- This sloppy and heavy handed comedy caper quickie with a couple of comedy heavyweights and a decent supporting cast hired to stand around make faces and spew stale dialog gets jammed between floors fast. Other than it's Bernie Madoff villain played by Alan Alda walking around in cuffs most of the film it has an antiquated implausibility that gives it a 70s look and feel.
Ben Stiller is Ben Stiller, the caring look out for the underdog guy he's played in his last twelve pictures over the past three years. These days he's working at a lavish Manhattan hotel caring for guests and managing an underdog group of employees that constitute a small UN. When the unctuous Madoff like Ponzi schemer loses the money of the hotel staff Josh Kovacs (Stiller) and his employees respond harshly getting themselves fired in the process. Determined to even the score they devise a plan that looks like it was masterminded by a twelve year old.
From it's disheveled and fragmented construction you get a visceral feeling of contempt for the audience by the makers of Tower Heist. The plan lacks detail, the comedy punch and the suspense a degree of tautness to release it from it's torpor. Director Jeff Ratner known for his noisy Batman films is working with a smaller pan to bang on here but still manages to annoy in different way by getting Eddie Murphy to revise his 80s SNL Mr. Rogers neighborhood character, Stiller's one note and a pathetic Matthew Broderick to stand around looking wide eyed and medicated. Tower Heist Belongs in the basement.
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